using Ubuntu 12.10 and I cant erase any of my dvd, or cd Rw's. Terminal will not work either. I have tried all the force commands in terminal and nothing. The dvd is recognized as a rewritable disk so I don't know why its not working. When I open brasero I have no "menu" to shoose blanking from.

The data on the disk that I want to blank has some backup from Windows 7 is that why brasero will not blank it? I know longer have windows 7, Ubunto is my only OS.

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I am the developer of libburn which probably does the drive
related stuff for your Brasero.

In order to distinguish between a problem of Brasero's own
code and a problem of libburn, you could use one of my
command line applications of libburn called xorriso. This can be installed with

sudo apt-get install xorriso

as it does not automatically get installed with libburn4 on Ubuntu.

A blank command would be (I assume your drive has address /dev/sr0):

xorriso -outdev /dev/sr0 -blank as_needed

Then obtain the state of drive and medium:

xorriso -outdev /dev/sr0 -toc

In case of success, xorriso should then report among other lines

Media status: is blank

If this succeeds, then Brasero's code is to blame, resp. the
system facilities by which it gets information about drive and
medium. (I cannot help with such problems.)

If above command fails to blank the medium, then you will have to
show me the messages of the blank attempt and the outcome of -toc run.
Probably we will have to obtain a log of the commands sent to the
drive and the replies which are received: